Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
Quotes to Explore
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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Great men are never cruel without necessity.
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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
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Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
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Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon.
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The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
